Cammie POV

'I'm staying' I said looking at Zach.

'Are you sure Gallagher Girl?' He held my hand tightly

'It's in my blood, I can't ignore that'

'It may be in your blood, but you don't have to.'

'I need to. I need to find out what Catherine wanted with the alumni disk' He raised his eyebrow

'So you have it'

'No. I might know where it is.'

'Might? So you were bluffing the whole time. Cammie you could have died.' He became angry

'But I didn't' I tried to smile

'Cam you've been too close to death more than once. It's getting too dangerous, maybe you should take a break.' He wasn't angry...he was pissed.

'NO WAY ZACHARY GOODE! I'm not going to be in that miserable position of waiting for you while you're on missions!'

'I'll leave'

'Wait, what?'

'I'll leave and have a normal life with you, just say the word and I will' He smiled

'I could never do that to you. It's in your blood as well'

'Yeah, I'm the perfect mixture of Goode and Townsend'

'I honestly thought you were going to try a pun and say the perfect mixture of Goode and bad'

'Would I do that Gallagher Girl?' He teased and smirked

'Yes' I pulled him into a long awaited kiss. 'Can you do me a favour?'

'What would that be?'

'Get me out of here' We both smiled.

Later that day

Zach had managed to get me out of the hospital quite quickly and drove us back to the safe house. When I walked through the door, I was bombarded with hugs and questions. Once they finished we sat down and had food.

'Our flight back to the states leaves tomorrow at 8 am' Liz informed us.

'Um, can we swing by my old apartment to get some stuff please?' I asked

'Sure, I'll drive you now' Joe said.

'I'll come' Zach offered starting to get up

'No. I need to speak to Cam' Zach nodded and sat down again.

The journey back to my place was quiet, for someone who said he needs to speak to me he wasn't doing a lot of talking. When we arrived the lock was busted in as we expected. We still went in cautiously. I went to the bedroom to collect some clothes when I entered the front room, Joe was reading a note.

'What does it say?' He jumped when I entered

'Sorry Cam, I didn't see you'

'That's the point of being the Chameleon.' I smiled 'What does it say?' He sighed

'See for yourself, it was on the doorstep' He handed me the piece of paper How was the muffin? I laughed out loud

'Joe, it's from the cafe owner downstairs, while I stayed he gave me free muffins of flavours he was experimenting with. It's not some secret code'

'Thank goodness!' We both laughed

'Are you ready to start at the CIA again?'He asked, I stopped

'No' I looked at him. 'Joe, the CIA don't know I'm with you do they?'

'No, they think you're still MIA'

'I'd like to keep it that way for a while'

'Why?'

'If I show you, you can't tell anyone'

'Cammie…' He warned

'Promise?'

'Promise'

'Then let's go' I led Joe out of the apartment and back to the car. 'Can I drive?'

'Sure' He handed me his car keys, soon we were pulling up outside what was left of Preston's house. 'Cammie, why are we here?' Joe asked as I started walking through the rubble.

'This was the perfect hiding place for dad's secrets'

'What secrets did he have?'

'He didn't trust the CIA for some reason and imbedded the information into the alumni disk'

'Cam, where's the proof?'

I went into Preston's study where a picture on the wall hung. I stood staring at it. Preston said that the previous owner of the house had left it. It was a painting of a campsite by a lake where the orange flames danced in the dark. I recognised the painting because I used to go camping with my parents by that lake when I was younger.

'Dad always used to say it was his favourite place to think, because not many people visited it. I was hidden in plain sight'

'Cam, it's just a painting of somewhere, it could be anywhere' I shook my head and took the picture down. I then got out a pen knife and broke the back of the canvas, pulling back the material there was money, passports and a notebook taped to the inside. Joe picked up a passport and opened it. 'Matthew did like hiding things in plain sight' He muttered.

In the meantime, I had picked up the notebook. This was different to his journal, this was more personal. So personal, he protected it with his life. And died protecting it. I opened to a page that was creased at the end and gasped.

'What is it?' Joe came over and had a look at the page, his eyes went wide and his mouth opened. 'This is a big problem'

'It is'

'Do you know what this means?'

'If we find the alumni disk, we could bring down the CIA'

'Cammie, don't do what I think you're going to do' I turned to him, looked straight into his eyes.

'Someone knows Joe! We can't ignore it!'

'Cammie, someone may know but that someone will protect it as well as your father did' Then a thought hit me.

'We need to go' I started running back to the car.

'CAMERON ANN MORGAN TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON' Joe had caught up and grabbed my wrist, spinning me round and locking me in place.

'It's hidden in plain sight' I whispered, my head was becoming clearer, my heart rocketing in my chest. 'I have 4 possibilities of where it might be'

'The alumni disk?'

'Yeah'

'Cammie, it's safe at Gallagher'

'No it's not.'

'Do you know something I don't know?'

'Think about it Joe! Why would we keep the disk at the place people would suspect it to be! It's almost screaming to be taken!'

'But that's the point! It's hidden where it needs to be, people will think we'd be stupid to leave it at Gallagher so wouldn't look there.'

'Why did dad have such an interest in it?' Joe sighed and let go of me, he ran his hands through his hair, looked up at the sky and then back at me.

'As moment you were born he knew you'd be a Gallagher Girl, when you're mom took the job he spent a lot of time there. I walked through the corridor one day and he was emerging from a secret passage, I decided to surprise him and he nearly broke my arm. He was spooked about something or someone, he wouldn't say who or what. The last thing he ever said to me was Keep her and it safe I never knew what it was. I guess it's the alumni disk.'

'So it's at Gallagher' I breathed

'I guess so'

'Something doesn't add up though' I started passing 'Why would they need me to get to the alumni disk, I was only little when Dad died, so why would then need me?' I stopped 'Unless…'

'Unless…'

'Unless I know the person they're trying to find'

'How would you somebody from over 300 years of Gallagher history?'

'What if it was hidden in plain sight?'

'Meaning?'

'The name is inscripted somewhere in Gallagher. On banners or tapestries or trophies, somewhere within the walls, somewhere in plain sight' I thought for a moment, I feel like I'm right...But then again, I could be wrong. I looked at Joe and he had a massive smile on his face, beaming from ear to ear.

'What?' I asked becoming defensive and a little self-conscious

'You're not half bad at being a spy miss Morgan'

'It's because I had a good teacher' I said punching him playfully on the arm, he pulled me into a hug 'If I could have anyone as a dad, I'm glad it's you Joey' He squeezed me tighter

'Come on let's go back before they send out a search party' We laugh as we got in the car, I had a strange feeling again, like I was being watched. I looked over at the woods and didn't see anything. As Joe said all those years before: If you feel like you're being watched...you probably are. This was something that terrified every pavement artist like me, if we were seen we weren't doing our job properly and that could get us killed. And right now, I feel like somebody's watching me, studying me...waiting for me.

Author's note: Another cliff hanger! The story will be leaving Rome...for now. And entering Gallagher Girl territory!

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